BUSMHR 3200 EXAM 1 (INKS)
Context of Strategy - Correct Answers -organizational behavior and human capital
management decisions should always be made with overall company in mid.
Derailers - Correct Answers --Insensitivity to others
-Poor working relations
-Inability to build or lead a team
-Authoritarianism
-Inability to change and adapt
Human Relations Movement - Correct Answers -proposed that better human relations
could increase worker productivity
McGregor's Theory X - Correct Answers --People dislike work and avoid it whenever
possible
-People need to be coerced to work
-People require close supervision at all times
-Most prefer to be directed, have little ambition and avoid responsibility
McGregor's Theory Y - Correct Answers --Work is seen as a natural activity, like play or
rest
-Given objectives, people can be very self-directed
-People become committed to objectives with some reward
-Most people are ambitious and can accept (and seek out) responsibility
Human Capital - Correct Answers -knowledge, honesty, confidence, skills
, Social Capital - Correct Answers -trust, respect, friendship, shared goals - not a given,
but orgs want it
Strategic Management Overview - Correct Answers -Critical to success, addresses
competitive challenges faced by org, plan for integrating goals, tactics and acionals, has
two major forms below
Strategy Formulation - Correct Answers -strategic management elements
(designing/developing a strategy)
Strategy Implementations - Correct Answers -strategic management elements (making
it happen/implementation)
Linking strategy and human resource management - Correct Answers -
Ethical Issues - Correct Answers -Points of concern about what is morally right
Causes of Ethical Behaviors - Correct Answers --ill conceived goals
-motivated blindness
-indirect blindness
-slippery slopes
-overvaluing of outcomes
Mergers - Correct Answers -The joining together of two or more companies or
organizations to form one larger one.
Acquisitions - Correct Answers -the incorporation of one firm into another through
purchase
Offshoring - Correct Answers -Moving operations from the country where a company is
headquartered to a country where pay rates are lower but the necessary skills are
available.
Organizational Culture - Correct Answers -The set of shared, taken-for-granted implicit
assumptions that a group holds and that determines how it perceives, thinks about, and
reacts to its various environment
Values - Correct Answers -broad beliefs, end states, behaviors, apply across most
situations, influence behavior, can be ordered
validity coefficient - Correct Answers -the type of correlation coefficient used in
validation research (-1 to 1)
Context of Strategy - Correct Answers -organizational behavior and human capital
management decisions should always be made with overall company in mid.
Derailers - Correct Answers --Insensitivity to others
-Poor working relations
-Inability to build or lead a team
-Authoritarianism
-Inability to change and adapt
Human Relations Movement - Correct Answers -proposed that better human relations
could increase worker productivity
McGregor's Theory X - Correct Answers --People dislike work and avoid it whenever
possible
-People need to be coerced to work
-People require close supervision at all times
-Most prefer to be directed, have little ambition and avoid responsibility
McGregor's Theory Y - Correct Answers --Work is seen as a natural activity, like play or
rest
-Given objectives, people can be very self-directed
-People become committed to objectives with some reward
-Most people are ambitious and can accept (and seek out) responsibility
Human Capital - Correct Answers -knowledge, honesty, confidence, skills
, Social Capital - Correct Answers -trust, respect, friendship, shared goals - not a given,
but orgs want it
Strategic Management Overview - Correct Answers -Critical to success, addresses
competitive challenges faced by org, plan for integrating goals, tactics and acionals, has
two major forms below
Strategy Formulation - Correct Answers -strategic management elements
(designing/developing a strategy)
Strategy Implementations - Correct Answers -strategic management elements (making
it happen/implementation)
Linking strategy and human resource management - Correct Answers -
Ethical Issues - Correct Answers -Points of concern about what is morally right
Causes of Ethical Behaviors - Correct Answers --ill conceived goals
-motivated blindness
-indirect blindness
-slippery slopes
-overvaluing of outcomes
Mergers - Correct Answers -The joining together of two or more companies or
organizations to form one larger one.
Acquisitions - Correct Answers -the incorporation of one firm into another through
purchase
Offshoring - Correct Answers -Moving operations from the country where a company is
headquartered to a country where pay rates are lower but the necessary skills are
available.
Organizational Culture - Correct Answers -The set of shared, taken-for-granted implicit
assumptions that a group holds and that determines how it perceives, thinks about, and
reacts to its various environment
Values - Correct Answers -broad beliefs, end states, behaviors, apply across most
situations, influence behavior, can be ordered
validity coefficient - Correct Answers -the type of correlation coefficient used in
validation research (-1 to 1)
